Antonio Ortega Gutierrez

Antonio Ortega Gutierrez (17 January 1888-15 July 1939) was a Colonel of Republican Spain during the Spanish Civil War and the President of the Real Madrid FC from 1937 to 1938.

Biography
Antonio Ortega Gutierrez was born on 17 January 1888 in Rabe de las Calzadas, Burgos, Spain. Ortega was a lieutenant of the Carabineros of the Second Spanish Republic in Irun, and in 1936 he became Governor of Guipuzcoa after a failed coup attempt against the republic. Ortega supported Luis Barcelo's coup against President Segismundo Casado's regime, and he was executed by firing squad after the rebellion was crushed by Casado's new government.